Enlik-Kebek, Memorial monument in Abai District, Kazakhstan.
Enlik-Kebek is a 6-metre tower with a dome and arches on four sides decorated with eastern ornament, built over the grave of Enlik and Kebek. Local craftsmen used red, brown and white-grey granite, cement, sand, alabaster and lime. The facade bears the inscription "Enlik — Kebek".
The monument commemorates two lovers who died in 1780 from inter-tribal conflicts. An earlier tower was built in 1875 before the current structure was constructed in 1960.
The site is called the Tower of Love, and the grave became a gathering place where local clans buried their own relatives so that a young man would not lie alone. Abai's line "Көп жасамай, көк орған, Жарасы үлкен жас өлім" is carved on the stone, and in his novel "The Path of Abai" the grave appears as a small hill on the Eraly plain.
The monument sits about 5 kilometers from the Semey-Karaul road and is reached through a marked pathway. Access from the main route is straightforward and the grounds are open to visitors.
The first small tower over the grave was built in 1875 by the mason Ryskeldi on the orders of the singer Birzhan Sal, who had visited the grave a year earlier. That tower later collapsed, leaving only traces, and the present 6-metre domed tower with four ornamented arches was erected in 1960 by residents of Abai district.
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